The source is the ever-prolific, ever-mysterious Ice Universe. Posting three new images, the leaker who previously broke the Galaxy Note 8, scooped the first Galaxy S8 real world photos and dissected the Galaxy S9 showed the Galaxy Note 9 will not win fans over on its looks.

Galaxy Note 9 concept was too ambitious

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In a side-by-side comparison, Ice Universe exposes “the real Note9” design and it has taken no noticeable step forward from the Galaxy Note 8. In fact, it’s almost identical except for the aforementioned enlarged front camera which I exclusively revealed last month.

Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of this news is Ice Universe has previously exposed what Samsung can achieve but claims the company decided to “save manufacturing costs” instead.

So I’d argue there is no chance the company will now U-turn and give us something more radical at this late stage, even if it has the capability. This also follows a pattern given the Galaxy S9 was a similarly iterative advance over the Galaxy S8, though I suspect many will see this simply as Samsung repeating the same mistake.